Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98)

Written by Michael Vlach.

Major work

•          Triumphus Crucis

Importance

•          Italian preacher and reformer

•          Called for radical moral and social reform after the death of Lorenzo de Medici

•          Sought a Christian culture based on the Bible and asceticism

•          Was hanged and burned as a heretic

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